BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Lay Cistercians of Gethsemani Abbey
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20240310T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20241103T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20250309T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20251102T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20260308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20261101T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250426
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250427
DTSTAMP:20260414T165154
CREATED:20250420T014307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250420T014307Z
UID:13353-1745625600-1745711999@laycisterciansofgethsemani.org
SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Easter Saturday
DESCRIPTION:THE LEAVENING OF \nMORTALITY AND INIQUITY \nFrom a sermon by St Aelred of Rievaulx \n◊◊◊ \nHe who is the creator\, made himself a creature. He who was Lord\, made \nhimself a servant. He who was rich\, made himself poor. He who was great\, made \nhimself little. And the Word was made flesh. He was bread and he fed the \nangels. But he did not feed us. We were\, however\, so weak that in no way could \nwe taste that bread in all its purity. We had within us a corrosive leaven that \nrobbed us of our pristine strength. We had become so unlike that pure and \nuntainted bread that we could not taste it at all. This leavening which we had \nwithin us was twofold. We had within us the leavening of mortality and we had \nwithin us the leavening of iniquity… \nWe are mortals and sinners; he is immortal and just. How were we to \ncome together? He saw this\, he who is caring and merciful. Because we could \nnot ascend to him\, he came down to us. He took upon himself one part of our \nleavening and so adapted himself to our weakness. He did not take to himself \nthe whole leaven that was in us\, but a certain part of it. If he had taken on the \nwhole of it he would be as we are and he would not be able to help us. If he had \ntaken none of it he would be so distant from us that we would not be able in any \nway to approach him. And so we would remain forever in our wretchedness… \nThe leavening of our mortality therefore he accepted\, and abode in the purity of \nhis justice\, so that he would be the sort of being who could come down to us and \nyet remain the sort of being to whom we ought to ascend… \nTo this leavening of mortality belongs hunger\, thirst\, sorrow\, misery. All \nof this our Lord took on himself. He chose to take on this leavening\, but he was \nnot obliged to remain in ferment. First he showed this leavening in himself \nthrough a wondrous compassion and then he purged himself of this leaven \nthrough a wondrous charity… \nWe ought to know that our iniquity is the cause of our mortality. And \ntherefore when we are fully purged of iniquity we will doubtless also be purged \nof mortality… Our iniquity is twofold. It comes from the nature in which we \nwere born and from the evil which we later brought to it. From both of these the \nLord purges us. He offered for us a sacrifice – his own blood – and through this \nsacrifice we are purged. And therefore what we suffer now from the corruption \nof our nature is no longer iniquity but infirmity. \nFrom the corruption of our nature come the impulses of concupiscence \nwhich we suffer unwillingly. From this come the impulses of lust\, anger\, pride\, \nambition. But if we do not consent to them\, God does not impute them to us\, \nbecause the pure sacrifice was offered to offset the corruption of our nature… By \nthe workings of his compassion in us in baptism we are purged of all sins\, both \nthose which came from nature and those which we added voluntarily.
URL:https://laycisterciansofgethsemani.org/event/vigils-reading-easter-saturday/
CATEGORIES:Vigils Readings
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR